Transnational Dante : inventing Argentine cultural identity / Heather Renee Sottong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sottong, Heather Renee, author.

Series:

Critical Studies in Italian Migrations Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Influence.

Dante Alighieri.

Argentine literature--History and criticism.

Argentine literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, The Netherlands : Fordham University Press, [2025]

Summary:

Opens the field of Dante Studies to further transnational studies of the Divine Comedy ' s circulation, translation, and global influence This fascinating book examines how Dante was repurposed by Argentine politicians and authors who were concerned with the construction of Argentine national identity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth.

Contents:

Cover

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

1. Bartolomé Mitre on Immigration and Argentine Identity

2. Bartolomé Mitre's Translation of the Divine Comedy: An Anti-Martín Fierro

3. Leopoldo Lugones on Immigration and Argentine Identity

4. Hypermedievalizing and Demedievalizing Dante: Leopoldo Lugones's and Jorge Luis Borges's Rewritings of Inferno V

5. Rewriting Dante to Parody Lugones: Borges's "The Aleph

6. Leopoldo Marechal on Immigration and Argentine Identity

7. Dante's Vita nuova and Book 6 of Adán Buenosayres: Solveig as Beatrice, Solveig as Argentina

8. The Journey to Cacodelphia: A Parody of Inferno and Modern-Day Argentina

Conclusion: Argentina's Failure to Produce a Divine Comedy

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781531510466

1531510469

OCLC:

1503842139